A fabulous collection of photographs of rarely seen embroidered animals in the Embroiderers' Guild Collection.

The Embroiderers’ Guild, founded in 1906, has at the heart of its collection numerous beautiful donated textiles in all forms, given by members and enthusiasts over many years. The collection now contains thousands of embroidery and lace examples from many countries and cultures. This book showcases the best of the collection’s animal embroideries, dating from the 17th century to the present day. Whether they are abstract or naturalistic, the variety of birds shown is quite extraordinary. They all exhibit a wonderful level of skill and imagination, and their beauty and detail will be inspirational to embroiderers of all ages and levels of expertise.

This fantastic book showcases the prestigious Embroiderers’ Guild’s huge collection of embroidered animals through the ages. Featuring photographs taken especially for the book, items are displayed in full along with detailed images that show off the stunning variety of creatures at their best.

Dr Annette Collinge's informative extended captions for each of the pieces give information on the provenance where known, and evaluate the quality of, and variety in, each of the works from her expert perspective.

Rarely exhibited in public, these beautiful and important embroideries that span the centuries are now available for everyone to see.